The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1897, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2°¢ 1897. Two closed ! have given | closing of the restaurants. yesterday and the others notice that they will do so withina day or so. The proprietors have been uring | provisions one way or another and hoping for steamers like everybody else. | With the news that the steamers cannot | come, their resources, largely from new: comers, tighten up, and they are com- pelled to go out of business. The great number who have been dependent upon | them, therefore, are being brought to a| sudden realization of what it is or may be | to go without anything. High prices are | no longer a matter of remark. Men pay $1 5o for a 15-cent meal, careless of the | fact that there no better, and are still ‘ grateful to the restaurant-keeper. As for“ t-keeper, like the agents of | big opposition companies, he is grate- h of customers who patron- er man. In the city of Dawson money cannot buy provisions, and for 10se who have money and no provisions an now find for what | v have is to purchaseflight. Those who | by faresight or by a pull have laid in pro re by no means secure, as the g-up process, that will under stress 1ly be adopted by the miners, will r off than not starve, say the miners, so s any one man has provisions. tting this it, the | to be in full t is the best use they others. | | SE seem | | situation this year is much more ed than hitherto. Then almost entirely willing to and did > stores or to in- s done could £ untried of w re *men. To di- miner with tly unjust that a feature of ion much | are t will not be done, an so manif n here a s ade provi: , and it will be these who t be called upon to surrender. An of the police, in the presence of | th ne, said to-day e tim canvass of t man : ou a miner and help develop the coun | 5 so, at what?’ T ques!!unsJ L have to be s factorily answered. Of | e, we know nearly ali of them, and in te | simply demand that he show us be, and what we find there will pe in a general fund.” Thi: for the first time thisw tloating on the river nter, and the hope | | morninz ice | ained by a rising river } | | that has been sa ng or dead, f a of - floating ice is the cer- 2 e end of transportation for he season. Last year the river was frozen | up at this time, but a thing unheard of belore; the ice broke late and went out, ing one steamer to reach here as late as October. That circumstance, solitary instacce as it is, is quoted over and over and over as a thing that may bappen e the steamer Hamilton failed to and I leit for the Yukon on i | | | | | ‘ | river has ‘ | | \ 1 \ | oir most four In the flats at Fort Yukon, where er filters through a labyrinth of islands an y-one miles from main- land to o doesnot amountto | more hes. Still the riveris not now accounted low, and even Captain Healy, manager of the North American Trading Transportation Company here, has maintained his belief that the steamers would arrive. Day by day, as they kept passing, with no news from be- | low, the more anxious of the people here | mbed the hills back of the town, and | asses scanned the winding line | ch e hilitops to the north that mark the course of the river, hoping for a fleck | of smoke that would mean the steamer. They do 0 no more. Yesterday morn- | pon the information that I brought | e fallure not only of the biz H ton, but the little Marguerite, to get over the bar, Captain Healy dispatched Cap- tain Guyger to Fort Yukon with instruc- tions to the captains of whatever vessels Lelonying to his company he might find there to “‘bring them through at whatever risk nzed be—if you have to tear the bot- toms out of them bring them through,” and with that braced up hisown hope and that of those who consulted him. But night, following a day behind me, ptain Hanson, manager here for Alaske Commercial Company. He hud gone to Fort Yukon to learn what he could, and without hope of a steamer get- ting through here, came in a poling-boat, as 1 had, with two Indians. His judgment as chief here was accepted as conclusive, and Captain Healy’s reserve of hope, based on the sacrifice of the bottoms of his boats, has departed. Captain Hanson explains the mystery of the Marzuerite. The Marguerite is a barge fitted up with the machinery of the oid steamer Arctic, which was caugnt in the early ice of last year a few miles below Fort Cudahy. When that early ice went out some genius undertook to release the Marguerite with gunpcwder, and in doing 80 blew her bottom out. The barge carry- ing the machinery has been used this year in lightering and carrying other barges over the flats. When I was three daysoutfrom Fort Yukon, toiling through those terrible flats, I saw the smokestacks of the Marguerite passing down on the other side of an island, How much the two long streamers of smoke that floated in her wake bore the likeness to me of angels’ wings no one can understana save those who have been through the ex- perience that I had just then fairiy en- tered upon. I knew that she was going to Yukon to bring up a barge that lay on the bar there, and I expected her to pick me up at Cirele City. 1 thought to be in Circle City two days from that time. I dia not arrive there until the sixth day after that. The dav of my arrival eight incies of snow fell, and the hopeful de- clared it weuld go off and bring the boats, s0 I waited there three day The snow aid go off a lit:le, but the cold nights ab- sorbed it. Tue river raised a few inches, but the Marguerite did not come, and I started with the small boat again to cover these 300 miles. mil- last | son, | know of any | said this morning: | for this year. | many millions in the output | glad of it. went over the bar, going down all right. She put in 125 tons from the stranded barge and returned over the oar all richt. She unloaded tnat, but in going back struck the gravel very hard twice, bound- ing rather than floating over the shaliow. She put on a lighter load than before, but could not get up again. Noneof the other steamers had arrived at Fort Yukon at he tinge Captain Hanson left, but the fact that none of them has ovectaken him is #o him conclusive that they cannot get up. Everybody on the river has got contidence in the ability of Captain Dixon of the Bella to overcome the difiicuity. The cry has been all along the line since hat “the Bella will get here.” But tbe | Bella does not get here, and Captain Han- to whose company she belongs, shakes his head even with regard to that mascot. “The situation has now resolved itself definitely,” said Captain Hanson morning. *We cannot supply provisions for the camp, and those who have not a supply to last them [ would advise to go away anywhere wh:re they may secure 1t. We have now 502 orders on the books which we may be able to i When leit for down the r.ver, balieving, as I did, that a steamer would get through, I gave | orders that 250 more orders might be listed from the miners, condiiional upon a teamer coming to fill them. “A man was ‘ent up among the miners and orders taken there from those who seemed most needy. But we will not ve able to fill those orders. The only things we have in the house in the way of pro- visions is a littie sugar, about 125 cases of ‘ canned corn, fifty boxes of dried fruit and a few boxes of evaporated onions. Con- densed milk and tomatoes gave out yester- day. Something gives out every day; flour and beans gave out on the first of the month and rice on the 12th. Ido not person who has an extra or a full supply of provisions, and very many of the miners will have to shut down. Alex McDonald is said to have an ! outtit for twelve men, and the Berrys for seven. These are the largest outfits that I know of, but I would not say that they havea supply for them. I know of others who would like to work twice that num- ber of men, but who will not -be able to work any.” Captain Healy of the North American Tracing and Transportation Company has nshine to throw on the sitnation. He “We nave not twenty- ive pounds of flour 10 the man. We have a few this and the boais had to go back, and if the boats had got up, I did hope in conjunction with the other company, to be able to spread out what we had altogether and muke it do, but as it1s, the situation is very dark. ‘Lhereare not provisions enough to keep 25 per cent of the miners going. I, myself, intended to work thirty men on claims that I own, but I will not be able to work one, and thatin face of the fact that I paid $51,000 for & mine a few days ago. Thisis a calamity. It will practically kill the camp It wili make z difference of Without provisions, the dirt cannot be taken out this winter, and therefore cannot be washed next spring. “0f course, I cannot say what is to be- com> of the people. There are about 5000 people here now dependent upon 1his town. There are 2500 to 3000 in the town. They keep coming every hour almost, and nows how many will drifs in before the winter closes thinegs up. ¥Few of those arriving have more ‘han a month or two's provisions. Many, [understand, sold their outfits at the pass rather than pack them in, trusting to Juck when they got here. They come to the store immediately upon their arrival, expecting to get all they can pay for. When we tell them we havenoth- ing to sell they say blankly, ‘W we're here now; we have got to live, and what are you going to do aboutit? Now that is a serious question that every man has 10 settia for himseif this winter. We can provide them nothing. The little tnat we have must be reserved for the miner who has interests here aud is anxious to work them.” The miners and these newcomers now see the situation in all its gravity. One of them put 1t this way: “There will be not a few but hundreds brought to the starvation mark here this winter. In such a condition no man can 1d food in reserve. The hungry men will walk into the cabin or the cache or the store of the man who has itand wili compe! him to give it up. We are certain to see distress and crime here—if we can call it by that name in such a time. The police? What can they do? Will they throw the whole community into the lockup? Very well, then they will have to feed them and the community will be No; what the miners’ meeting decides upon is the law here. and the police are helpless against But the fact is the police will stand in on any well- conducted movement to secure a division of provisions.” A great number of robberies of caches have already been reported, and the whole country is well on to the danger line of lawlessness. ‘With regard to escaping from this de:- perate situation after the river closes up, A. G. Wissel, cashier of the Alaska Com- mercial Company, who expects to go our with James McCauley about December, had this to say: *It will require at least five dogs. They will be in great demand this winter and will be worth from $100 to $300. It will require at least 1100 pounds of feed for the dozs alone. That is very, very scarce and hich. It will take at least a month to make the trip to Dyea, the thermometer averaging thirty below all the way.” Isend this letter by the partv starting out to-day with the little steamer Kou- kuk. The Koukuk belonged to Gordon Bettles, one of the bonanza kings. It was empioyed in various ways on the upper river until this strees of circumstances de- veloped, anda yesterday John Howarld bought it to take out the company of gen- tieman named. The original intention was to go down the river and attempt to get a steamer at For: Yukon. The arrival of Captain Hanson changed that, as he said it was very uncertain if it would be done. The intention, as stated, therefore, is now to go to Fort Selkirk, 175 miles up the river, and irom there follow the trail to Dyea. ° As to my journey bringing the news to Dawson from Fort Yukon, it may be dis- missed in a paragraph. It has been twenty-two days of pushing and poling at a boat laden as lightly as possible with provisions, Llankets and clothes; twenty- two days of wading through shallows looking for channels or fizhting the swift currents of the deeper water, threading the trees along shore with the towline or cutting away the sweepers that overhang the banks where the crush of theice in the watersof the spring have torn forests out by the roots and flung the trees for miles along the edge of the water like bunches of jackstraws; twenty-two days of wet feet and and wet and frozen clothes, of camping at might in rain and snow with olten no more protection than a pair of blankets afferded, with a bank of pine branches thrown up to windward. I left Fort Yu- no s Captiian Hancon says the Mnrguexinlkon on the evening of September 1, and with the exception of three days at Circle City, have been traveling bard from day- break until dark. I bave changed boats s x times, and starting with a large part of my outfit, I arrived here with only a change of clothes and a pair of blankets, being compelled 1o sacrifice all the rest to make time. The nine days it took me to get through the flats from Fort Yukon to Circle City, where the channel of the river is and where the water seems to run every way t once, and where the sweepers and the cross currents and shallows are every- where. The nine days consumed in cov- ering this eighty miles was more trying than the 300 and more between Circla Citv and this city, save thar the weather for tbe most part wa: perfect. It rained constantly during the last two of those nine days, and we were without a tent and drenched. At Circle City the rain turned to snow and tue weather has since continued cold. 1 left Cizcle City with a party of miners, but their heavy boat was overtaken by the mail man one day out. Icame on with him to Forty Mile or Fort Cudahy. As he began to run :low at that time Ien- ved two Indians at that place and ar- rived here on the evening of the second day from that point. Ice and snow have accompanied every hour of the journey from Circle City, coating the poles and the towline, freezing our gloves and clothes and makine our bed at night. P. S.—Since writing the foregoing all the restaurants in town have closed down, and all the available boats have been ap- propriated by parties preparing to stam- pede down the river. Captain Hansen of the Alaska Commer- cial Company has issued a formal notice to the miners and ail others that-there are no provisions on sale. A miners’ meeting will ba called at once. The boat carrying this leaves at once. Many Man Must Leave. DAWSON CITY, N. W. T., Sept. 28— As the mail man passes through this morning I am enabled to add a word to that dispatched yesterday by the party that left on the Koukuk. A fleet of small boats left for down the river this morn- ing, and active preparations are going forward all along the water front by par- ties getting ready to follow. The one idea is now to get outor to gzet down where provisions may be had. Nothing else is talked of, as the hope of securing food nhere is abandoned by everybody. And still the newcomers, apparently uncon- scious of what they are coming to, keep dropping down from the upper river hour vy hour, and the floating ice increases in quantity and bulk. Captain Hauson addressed the miners on the street last evening, advising them of the exact situation, saying that, while he had himself returned from Fort Yu- kon, ne could not bring the boats, and that he had littie hope of any of them getting here. The restaurants all closed vesterday, but this morning one of them opened temporarily with a new price of $2 50 ameal. There is as yet considerable fresh meat in town, brought in hy Dalton over the trail, and he is expected to bring more. The great scarcity is flour. The $2 50 meals do not include butter and are short on bread. MajorJ. M. Walsh, chief of the mounted police in this district, is reported to be at Sixty-3ile, on his way here. He has been establishing posts along the route for the police, and these will serve for the postal carriers. The posts will bs at Sixty-Mile, Stewart River, White River, eni another on the trail. Walsh is the man of su- vreme power in this country. He may ignore the Jaws of Parliament and make new ones of his own. Much interest is felt with regard to him and what he will do, especially as to ques- tions of duty and the taxes imposed for every privilege of the miner, and most especially with regard to the 20 per cent tax o! the product of the mines, which has thrown a damper over the camp almost equal to the scarcity of provisions. 1t is hoped :hat he will iguore that law, In the meantime the great question is one of provisions. The whole river above Fort Yukon is suffering the same con- ditio Circle City, a town of 400 cabins, bas but 150 people in it and not provisions enough for the company mess. I had difficuity on my way up of getting a meal there and Dr. Spencer Harris, in charge of the Alaska Commercial Company’s store, declared that if tbe company had not guaranteed to supply him with food he would certainly leave the country. No vrovisions have been put ashore this yeur, and they were whoily dependent upon later boats, which have not arrived. The situation is the same at Forty-Mile and other of the upper posts on the river. The outlook is exceedingly cold and biue. Sam W. WaLL. Sl g To Carry Klou NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The steamship South Portlana, formerly the Caroline Miller, which was once se'zed as a fi buster, has been purchased by a syndicate and is to be put into condition for service b-tween Seattle and St. Michaels, Alaska. The South Portland being of light draught ers. will at times be able to navigate the | Yukon. The steamship, after being fitted out in Brookiyn, will carry a suitable cargo and passengers from ihis and other ports. HYPNOTIZED SCHOOL CHILDREW. Instructor in a Wisconsin School Gets Into Trouble With the Directors. SHEBOYGAN, Wis,, Nov. 28.—Quite a sensation has developsd in public school circles in this city througzh one of the pro- fessors, who has been practicing hvpnot- ism on school children. Professor Gzorze W. Ferguson, instructor of drawing in the public schools, is charged with having taken eight or ten pupils from one ot the ward sciools and using them as subjects for an exhibition. Ferguson does not deny the charge, but asserts in his own defense that no injury was done to the children and that he did not imagine there wouid be any objection on the part of the parents. The school board has peen asked to dismiss the professor, and a special meeting will be held to hear the case. Professor Ferguson has been in Sheboy- gan for several vears, He is an artist of unusual talent and spent some time in Paris in pursuing his art studies. e KILLED BY A BLAST. Workman Loses His Life in a. Mine Near Butte, BUTTE, Nov. 28.—John Goss was in- stantly killed in the Or.ginal mine at 3 o’clock this morning by an explosion of blasts in the face of a drift. He and three others had been drilling holes for the blast, and, when it was ready, lighted the fuses. They waited too long, and the blasts bezan to go off. Goss was thrown down and must have died at once. Two of the others escaped without other injury than the shock. Richard Gilb:rt ‘was burned by powder and his legs peppered with pieces of rock. Goss was a orother of William Goss, who, while working at squaring timbers in the same mine less than a month ago, feil across a circular saw and was cut in two. el One Dose Will Stop a Cough. Dr. Parker’s Cough Cure never fails; try it. Price 20 cents. For sale by all druggists. * | RETURNED FRON ThE KLONDIKE Twenty-Five Men Came From the Land of Gold. THEIR FORTUNES ARE NQOT LARGE. All Tell Stories of Shortage of Food at Dawson City. THOMAS MAGEE IS VERY SANGUINE. Believes That the Northwest Coun= try WIll Outdo California and Australia In Wealth. Epecial Dispatch to THE CALL SEATTLE, Nov. 28.—Twenty-five men arrived here to-day on the City Seattie direct from Dawson City. They were divided into two parties, the last one of which left Dawson October 16. The party consisted of Thomas McGee Sr., Thomas Magee Jr. of San Francisco, “'Swift-Water’’ Bill Gates, Joe Boyle, Wil- liam Hiskins, F. Eckert, H. Robertson, H. Raymond, Bert Nelson, John W. Brauer, W. H. Chambers, E. W. Pond, E. Asb, J. Gillis, Thomas Wilson, P. Me- Graw, Jack Dalton, William Leake, Ar- thur Celine, Joseph Fairburn, J. Smith, T. Warren, Jim Stephenson. They came out over the Dalton trail. They are reported to have between them $60,000 in drafts and $200,000 in gold dust. All tell stories of a food shortage in Dawson that is almosta famine. The last person to leave Dawson was Jack Dalton. When Dalton left the steamers Alice and Bella had reached there loaded lightly. It is said that the Bella’s cargo consisted of whisky ana billiard balls. She brought no provisions. The Canadiam Mountea Poiice cliartered the Bella and gave all who wished a free passage to Fort Yukon. The Bella is reported to have leit about October 12 with 200 men. According to the statements made by members of the Dalton party, there is liable to be trouble of the most serious kind this winter in Dawson. Leake to'd one of the men ina party anead of him whom Le met at Dyea that all the people talked about at Dawson was the jfood famine, Men were gathered in groups and cursing with might and main the new- comers that were constantly coming into the Klondike. loaded with scarcely any provisions. The mountel police were offering free transportation to the grub piles forther down the Yukon, but to countless hundreds who bad iabered hard all summer accumulating a grub stake, the prospect was uninviting to say the lpast. The-e men figured that it would take all their savings in gold to pay their living expenses at Fort Yukon during the winter, and that in the spring they would not have even enough to pay passage money back to Dawson, to say nothing of purchasing enough food to subsist on until they could get started again. To these poor feilows the offer of the mounted police was no better than the prospect at Dawson of being compelled to winter on half rations until the supply boats could reach the diggings in the spring. Thomas Magee Sr., the well-known eapi- talist of San Francisco, in an interview with a correspondent, said: “The excite- ment over the failure of the steamers to bring food up to Dawson continued when the Daiton party left. The police took charge for two days of the stores and warebouses of the Northwestern and Alaska Commercial companies as a pre- caution only. Flour was seiling at $2 a pound, and no sale of less than filty pounds was made. No plans had yet been formulated to avert the starvation of those who are short of provisions. Those well supplied have not much sympathy with those who are short, because of the fact that the majority of these latter went in with little food, although abundantly warned at Lake Bennett in advance. “It had not been discovered up to October 16 who s:ot the two mea in Dawson who were caught stealing food. One was found dead; the other, fatally wounded, died at the Catholic hospital. It is believed that a secret organization exists for the purpose of shooting down theives. The organization of hunting parties for the winter, to hunt moose, was talked of and will be carried out. “Dysentery and accompanying fever were general at Dawson last summer. They were caused by miasma from the swamp on which the business town is built and other absence of drainage and sewerage. These conditions will be greatly intensifiad next summer and an epidemic is predicted. The river water iz bad, but there is one fine spring of water out at the Catholic hospital. Nothing was talked about but the grub question. The solu- tion will probably be a public committes to gather up voluntary or enforced con- tr.butions, the food ihus gathered to be public y dispenssd and pa:d for by work or cash by those to whom it is civen. The Yukon River practically closed twice, about Sepiember 30 and again about Octo- ber 25, but the 1ce ran out again and left the river free, so that all the belated par- ties who had taken such risks of being :eft out inthe wilderness, most of them short of provisions, too, probably all got to Daw- son or near to it. This reopening of the river twice was a phenomenon never known to occur before. There was nonew minitg excitement. With a persistence heretofore unexpiained many parties from Dawson, as weli as newcomers, went up the Stewart River. Nothing whatever ex- cept good ciaims have as yet been discov- ered there. “The belief, however, is that rich dis- coveries will be made there yet. Jack Datton and Mr, Maloney, a lawyer of Ju- neau, have purchased of Hugh Fer-uson and Alexander McDonald,” Skookum claims 1 and 2 for $82,500. It is reported that a large advance has been offered to the buyers. 8kookum claims are looking up because some of them have yieldea forinitial work as large returns as any found eisewhere, Thomas Magee Jr. has l purchased interests on some of the best creeks—El Dorado, Bonanza and Skook- um. He will return to develop these claims very early in the sprin-. Business in connection with them was what brought him out. An aventsof the Rothschilds who invested $60,000 last fail has made ar- rangements toreturn in the spring. Be- cause of the failure of the September steamers to take passengers down the Yu- kon early enough to give reasonable as- surance that ocean connection would be made at St. Michael, hundreds who wero intensely anxious to gat out of the coun- try for the winter will try later to get cver the ice and lakes with dogs sleighs this winter. “Many of them will suffer greatly, be- | cause compet:nt guiles and dogs are both | scarce. This business of the failure of the steamers to get up the river with provi- sions and down with passengers will have to be rectified. *Lighter draught boats with more power and steam capstane, for use in getting over bars, will have to ve ready nex:t June. Hundreds of intensely disappointed per zons are now in Dawson who, like myse!f, | would have given any pecuniary price in | their power to get out by steamer, but could not. I was tetter off in the wilder- ness and walking than in that hole of utter discomfort and starvation this winter. The people tiere are being largely pre- vented from developing the enormously rich coun(ry by nearly uiter isolation and scareity of food. The work to be done is sufficiently nard and trying at best, and its great difficulties should not be in- creased, as this and Jast winter they enor- mously are and were. A railroad is the real want, Iisteamboats were run from Lake Bennett to Dawson they could not travel continuously. The obstacles of the canyon, the White Horse and the Five Fingers rapids, are not to be removed, nor can sand and gravel bars and snags be erased, and if they ali could river and lake naviga- tion would only be for summer. A raiiroad would be for all of the year. The Dulton trail goes over a very easy country of re- markably light grades. Its two summaits are exceedingly light and the salt-water terminus at Haines Mission, Cnilcat, is an exceedingly fine one, “‘A. Cal Berger is in the field surveying this route. We passed him fourteen miles from Chilcat. He is reported to have capital behind him. He said his cowpany will begin work by the first of January. Mr. McArthur, surveyor sent by the English Government, went over the Dalton trail last summer. He was led by Mr. Dalton. Hs was well satisfied with the route and the grades. Of course my opinion in this matter is worth little, but I feel how important it1s that a rail- road should be built through that coun- try. Somewhere quartz and placer mines of great extent and richness are to be found in that country through which we passed, and it is my deliberate opinion that Californin and Australia are likely to bave their past and present vastly out- distanced by the development of the next ten years in that wide region. Of course, too, fairly payineg placers and wide low- graded quariz will be tne rule. “In saying this I am not dreaming of adding stimulus to the wild and b.ind helter-skelter rush of aimle:s people who have been and will be tumblhng in all sorts of unprepared shapes into that wiid country. It wasa study, in this connec- | tion, to see men, apparently almost crazed with haste, breaking their necks almost inrushing over the Skaguay trails to get on toward Klondike, and later on to see them in Dawson loaiing around the muck- hole streets there, doing nothinz, waiting for rich strikes which they expected and did not find. early all of them were short of provisions. The great majority were suffering trom the blues and intense | disappointment. Eight out of ten of them wished they had not cotae. It was gener- ally prophesied at Dawson that there would next summer and fall be nearly as great a hegira of outgoersas of incomera. Some very rich s rikes, none of which were made last -summer and fail, may change this. Transportation both ways on the the river can hardly be overdone.”’ Mr. Magee thus graphically describes trip out over the Dalton trail: The town of Dawson boasted of only one steamboat, named the Kilkuk. She was old, rickety andjutteriy broken down. | She had just made two trips up theriver 200 miles to Selkirk, taking over eight days in each case to make the ir.p. One would not have cared to make a short trip on her in calm weather on an inland river. Yet 200 passengers at leastin Daw- son, utterly disappointed by the non-ar- rival of the big steamers from St. Michael, were willing to trust their lives for over 1800 miles down the Yukon on this old shell. Tweive of us arranged to have her bought and make this trip on her, but Captain Hanson of the Alaska Commer- cial Company persuaded us not to do so, because it was exceedingly doubtful that even if she made the trip to St. Michael in safety we would find an ocean steamer there. Therefore we decided to go up the | Yukon 1o Fort Selkirk (Pelly), 200 miles further, to Chilkat. | “:Seven days were spent upon this steamer, and instead of taking us to Sel- | kirk she took us a distance of about ninety-five miles only. Her maciinery broke down from one to threa times a day and she was constantly running aground. On one occasion, through mismanage- ment, she was driven head-on at full speed onto a rocky shore, where her bow was torn away and her whole frame shaken. But for double protection in her bow sho would have sunk. Atihe end of | the seventh day, surrounded by heavy pack ice in the river, the trip was given up and we all returned to Dawson. This move cost us $200 a pisce. “After this failure to get up the Yukon, I met Jack Dalton in Dawson. He had just come down from Selkirk with tiree large rafts containing about five carcasses of cattle and horses and 200 sheep. Tmsl meat he sold for $1 to $1 25 a pound. It | will prove of vital value in keeping the wolf of famine from the peopie of Daw- son. Mr. Dalton is one of the best-known men in the Yukon region and the Dalton trail is named after him. He intended with threeof his men, at once to returu to Selki-k, poling aud towing his canoes up strexm. “rrom that point with five horses he meant 10 go over his trail, a distance of 340 miles to Chilkat. Three old Yukon miners, Messrs. Ferguson, Celine and Leake, were also going with him. He agreed that we should accompany bim. In a canoe with one of his Ind:ans and Mr. Ferguson my son and I left Dawson on October 14 with about 60) nounds of food and personal effects. Mr. Dalton two days later with an Indianin a 14-foot she.l and about 200 pounds of freight fol- lowed. He overtook us ten days out, and when the ice was running very heavily in the Yukon. On the fourth day ween- countered very severe obstacles in cross- ing the river at a point whers it was much too deep for poling. Aftertwo bours’ work and rereated danger of drowning we finally got across. The ice in the main river grows worse daily until the ninth day. ‘YWQ were caught in nearly ice-closed water. Further progress seemed impoa- sible. The Indian grew wild over the dreadful obstacles. ~He exhausted his vocabulary of Indian oatbs over and over again, and finally, in combined rage and despair, broke wholly down and cried. He retused to go furtber. Here Dalgon and bis Indian joined us, his canoes ing been partialiy wrecked by ice jam- ming half a mile ahead. We therelore joined forces. Towing our boat was the chief work, my son always taking the lead in this. I staved in the boat and steered with an Indizn paddle. b being then almost impossible to keep the boat from going ashore and ground- | ing. At Erst my paddling caused | quent grounding. Thirteen days of this up-river work, all days oi diflicnity, doubt and dang:r, we reached Selkirk on ! Qctober 25. Dalion’s oibher men got in the next duy. Alter arest of two days we left Seikirk. “Mr. Dalton was the leader of the party, in which there were nine white men and | three Indians. Three other men f)llowed, | butdid not belong to the party. Tairteen | inches of snow was on the grounl audl more was threatening. This was very unusual so early. A trail tbhrough the wood_had fo be cut as we slowly ieaded | for Five Finger Rupids, fifty-five miles further up the Yukon. “We nad five horses, one of which avmy disposal when 1 car~d to ride. Tl trail kept so bad that on the second day Dalton and two other men went back to Selkirk and brought up a canoe, to which were transferred the packs. thus greatly lightening the hcrses. Oa tne third morning the horses were swum over the Yukon, on the turther side ¢f which there | was a fair trail. " One of the animals drowned almost the moment he entered the water, indicatine great weakness. Feed was scarce and the animals, rein- deer-like, had to paw down in the snow to get it *It snowed off and on for two daysand much more was constantly threatening. On the third day it seemed that further | snowfalls might make the trail impass- | abio for anyuning like rapid travel. T wo feet already lay on the level. Under these circumstances and with over 300 miles of lund travel before us, Dalion strongly urged us to go back to .Selkirk. Butwe refused, and for very good reasons. My | son and I bad already contributed all our | provisions and a single nd was not to be had at Selkirk. The Yukon was tuen almost closed with ice, too. There was, therefore, no apparent hope that we could get back to Dawson, and even if there, nothing was to be had toeat. Togo on | was, therefore, the only wise course, we thought. “Without foad, life at Selkirk would have been like a living death, Thetrail on the left hand side of the river wasacCon- stantly rolling one, the weather was con- tinuously gloomy, snowing some and always threatening more. Near Five Finger Rapids the horses swam the river-| again and we pushed on up the rignt bank to Cormacks Post, twenty five miles, where we left tke Yukon without any | Fo:s bility of turning back. Six days | over a very rough country, but with no new snow, brought us to Hootchy-Eye, seveniy-five miles, where thers were Lhree deserted Ind an cabins, Mr. Dalion bad a cache of provisions there, but it had all disappeared, except one sack of flour, five pounds of sugsr and thirty pounds of ba- con. Fortunately allof our food was not out or we would have been in a very bad fix, the next cache being at Dalton Post, a hundred miles furtner on. The mext day we passed through a country bare of timber, 1n very gioomy, wind-threatening | weather. On the summitof the surround- | ing mountains heavy gales and snow were prevailing. Dense clouds, as black as the biackestsmoke, wereseen ; they looked as x though a vast conflagration had started. “A more gioomy or forbidding sight | could hardly have been seen outside of Tartarus. Bad water beyond Hootchy- ve poisoned most of the party, causing severe and frequent cramps, with hem- orrhages. In uddition to this, I bad & se- vere attack of lumbago. The first day [ was lashed in an Indian freight toboggan. Inthus being puiled over the trail my vack and every rough spotin the trail were broughit in violent contact, making in-| tense pain much more intense. The next day I rode and walked, and on the third I walked altogether. A portion of the, time on that day, although on my feet and keeping up with the procession, I was unconscious from pain. We got only two | meals a day on the entire trip, breakfas) | always in the dark, between 5 and 6, and dinner between 4 and 5. The shori daylightand the difficulty of packing pro- | visions did not allow of stops for mid- day meais. A meal at Daltons Post, which we reached in six days from Hootchy-Eve, and composed of canned corned beef, bread baked by Dalton gnd a can of coid tomatoes, had at once such | physical strength, comfort and physical | satisfaction in it that strains blown from | far-off sunset lands or the music of olian harps could not have been more soothine. ““I'ne horses were left here. two died on the way, but three new ones, estrays, were picked up. . Thirty miies from the post was anothner base of Daiton’s supolies in two tents. We should have reached this place, called the Cache, on the second day. We walked from 7:30 A. M. until after 7 P. M., three hours past daylight, without reaching timber sheller, or without reach- ing the cache. We then lost the trail. Dalton was still behind at the post. A night spent far within the arctic regions could not have been more desolately ex- posed, though, of course, it could have been colder. The thermometer was about, 20 deg. below zero and the wind made it vastly worse. “Four of the party were partially frozen in their feet during the night. Next morning we found, much to our disgusr, that we had been only three-quarters of a mile from the cache. Next day, by moon- Light, very early, we were off 10- the first summit, for there were two to cross. The first has an elevation of 2300 feet, the sec- ond 900 feet lower. “Tne pace was a running walk and the course largely over smooth ice. I got some very tail fails on it. After crossing | this summit the worst of our troubles was over and we were within forty miles of Chilkat. I had for forty days, on icy, up- river work for 200 miles, and by land for over 300, been pushing on, in Vervy poor condition, in unceasing work, a portion of the time, too, in intense pain. Part of the time L did not in the least care whether Ilived or died. Had 1 been assured any morning of the trin that I would be dead before night I would with none the less appetite have eaten my full share of bacon and beans and drunk my coffee in con- tentment, “On the last day I did not walk, but gladly rode in an Indian sleigh on the ice of the Chilkat River. We entered the world again on the forty-second day from Dawson.” WILLIAM BUYS THE YARPA, Representative American Yacht Good Seagoing Qualities Secured by the Emperor of Germany. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The steel yacht Yampa has been sold to the Emperor of Germany by her owner, Richard Suydam Palmer, of the New York Yacht Ciub, —————————————————————— NEW DAT of WHEN OTHERS FAIL CONSULT DOCTOR SWEANY. 1i you are suffering from the results of indis- cretions of youth, or from excesses of any kind in maturer years: or if you have Shrunken Organs, Lame Back, Varicocele, Rupture, ex- haustive drains, etc., you should vaste no time, but consult this Great Specialist; he speedily and permanently cures ail diseases of Men and Women. Call on or write him to- day., Heecan cure you. Vaiuable Book sent Free. Address “Digging the water, ratuer than steer- ing in it, is the word expressive of that kind of paddling work, It was very hard work, too, whea in shallow water, it|737 Market St., San Francisco, Cal, i F. L. SWEANY, M.D,, | seagoing qualities she cannot was built in 1837, is a representative American yacht and mn numerous races in her earl; days and ot Ler lonzz ocean cruises has demonstrated that in mode!, speed, cnnstruc.l;&;n.,‘u:fi_; ‘The yacht atiracted the atten- illiam while - at Kiel The Yampa, wh 4 surpassed. [ tion of Emperor W last summ TALES NN TRAINED OF CRANPAGHE Startling Innovation Intro- duced This Year by Coa(}jh Butie:worth. P.rmitted Football Payers Under Him to Eat and Drink What= ever They Liked. 3 Special Dispatch to THE CALL. BOSTON, Nov. 28 —The slartling . an- nouncement was made here to-day that Yale’s football success was due to cham- pagne training. ; There was something unusual in the way that Yale’s football players were trained this fall. A great innovation was made by Head Coach Butterworth that, bad it failed of success, would have been laid up by many as a grave error. Tt w bowever, and hereafter Yale will follow a new method of training and diet. The most radical departure Mr. Butterwor mede wes in regard to thediet of the pla ers. He believes in the English idea of athlete’s training, which, so far as el is concerned. is 10 train asli sible according to the old American plgi of oatmeal and beefsteak. Buiterwortn changed all this. In former years the diet of the football viayers has been ths most rigorous oi all the athletic teams. It wus always bellevod’ that a foo ball player needed rare bee and potatoes and ostmeal. Sweets were considered dangerous, a< were also all sorts of alcoholic drinks. Butterworth this fall, much against the wishes of many of the coaches, adopted a most liberal form of diet. He allowed the players to eat anything they cared for that was within the bounds of reason. He watched every man carefully and prescribed for him ac- cording to his peculiar temperament and the way he did bis work on the fcotball field, But most radical ot all innovations by Butterworth was a liberal supply of cham- pagne with everv dinner. Tue dinner, which came at 6:30 o’clock in the evening, was liberal in every course, and was what is termed a good, heavy dinner. There were soup and fish and meat and sweets. Added to this the champagne formed as Liberal a meal as a clubman would nave. The players enjoyed this change [rom oatmeal and beefsteak and their physical condition improved under it. As soon as any player showed signs of his hard work teliing on him his supply of champagne was increased and he rapidly got back into conaition. n Guatemala and Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, Nov, 28.—Reports from Guatemals state that business has been interrupted by the recentrevoliution. 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